Three Viking warriors in a reenactment from the Jorvik Viking Festival (2012).
Reenactors and creators of the helmets, armour, clothing etc, are unknown: kudos to them for their marvelous work.
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11/10/2021
Uncategorized England, English, Jomsvikings, Jorvik Viking Festival, medieval warfare, Sweden, Valsgärde, Vendel Culture, Viking, Viking Age, Viking history, Viking longship, Vikings, York Leave a comment
Three Viking warriors in a reenactment from the Jorvik Viking Festival (2012).
Reenactors and creators of the helmets, armour, clothing etc, are unknown: kudos to them for their marvelous work.
30/09/2021
Uncategorized Biology, Genetics, Scandinavia, Viking, Viking Age, Viking history, Vikings Leave a comment
Republication from national geographic
Image credit: Wikimedia commons
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In popular imagination, Vikings were robust, flaxen-haired Scandinavian warriors who plundered the coastlines of northern Europe in sleek wooden battleships. But despite ancient sagas that celebrate seafaring adventurers with complex lineages, there remains a persistent, and pernicious, modern myth that Vikings were a distinctive ethnic or regional group of people with a “pure” genetic bloodline. Like the iconic “Viking” helmet, it’s a fiction that arose in the simmering nationalist movements of late 19th-century Europe. Yet it remains celebrated today among various white supremacist groups that use the supposed superiority of the Vikings as a way to justify hate, perpetuating the stereotype along the way.
10/06/2021
Uncategorized Estonia, medieval warfare, Military, Viking, Viking Age, Viking sword, Viking weapons, Vikings Leave a comment
Republication from Norway today
Viking swords in Wikimedia commons
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Scandinavia is an archeological hotspot when it comes to Viking discoveries.
But there’s another Northern European area that has been especially important for Viking finds, too: the Baltic region – and Estonia in particular.
17/05/2021
Uncategorized Kiev, Kievan Russia, medieval warfare, Military, Military history, Military topics, Norse, Rus, Russian, Russians, Slavs, Viking, Viking Age, Vikings Leave a comment
A reenactment of an onslaught of Kievan Russian warriors (9th-11th centuries). Reenactors and creators of the weapons, shields, helmets etc, are unknown: kudos to them for their fine work.